prysm

Release:0.15.1
Date:Mar 18, 2019

prysm is an open-source library for physical and first-order modeling of optical systems and analysis of related data. It is an unaffiliated sister library to PROPER and POPPY, codes developed to do physical optics modeling for primarily space-based systems. Prysm has a more restrictive capability in that domain, notably lacking multi-plane diffraction propagation, but also offers a broader set of features.

Use Cases

prysm aims to be a swiss army knife for optical engineers and students. Its primary use cases include:

  • Analysis of optical data
  • robust numerical modeling of optical and opto-electronic systems based on physical optics
  • wavefront sensing

Please see the Features section for more details.

prysm is on pypi:

>>> pip install prysm

prysm requires only [numpy](http://www.numpy.org/) and [scipy](https://www.scipy.org/).

If your environment has [numba](http://numba.pydata.org/) installed, it will automatically accelerate many of prysm’s compuations. To use an nVidia GPU, you must have [cupy](https://cupy.chainer.org/) installed. Plotting uses [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/). Images are read and written with [imageio](https://imageio.github.io/). Some MTF utilities utilize [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/). Reading of Zygo datx files requires [h5py](https://www.h5py.org/).

pip can be directed to install these,

>>> pip install prysm[cpu]     # for numba
>>> pip install prysm[cuda]    # for cupy
>>> pip install prysm[img]     # for imageio
>>> pip install prysm[Mx]      # for h5py
>>> pip install prysm[mtf]     # for pandas
>>> pip install prysm[deluxe]  # I want it all

or they may be installed at any time.

Features

Physical Optics

  • Modeing of pupil planes via or with:
    • Fringe Zernike polynomials up to Z48, unit amplitude or RMS
    • Noll (“Zemax Standard”) Zernike polynomials up to Z36, unit amplitude or RMS
    • apodization
    • masks
      • circles and ellipses
      • n sided regular polygons
      • user-provided
    • synthetic fringe maps
    • PV, RMS, stdev, Sa, Strehl evaluation
    • plotting
  • Propagation of pupil planes via Fresnel transforms to Point Spread Functions (PSFs), which support
    • calculation and plotting of encircled energy
    • evaluation and plotting of slices
    • 2D plotting with or without power law or logarithmic scaling
  • Computation of MTF from PSFs via the FFT method
    • MTF Full-Field Displays
    • MTF vs Field vs Focus
      • Best Individual Focus
      • Best Average Focus
    • evaluation at
      • exact Cartesian spatial frequencies
      • exact polar spatial frequencies
      • Azimuthal average
    • 2D and slice plotting
  • Rich tools for convolution of PSFs with images or synthetic objects:
    • pinholes
    • slits
    • Siemens stars
    • tilted squares
    • slanted edges
  • read, write, and display of images
  • Detector models for e.g. STOP analysis or image synthesis
  • Interferometric analysis
    • cropping
    • masking
    • lowpass/highpass/bandpass/band-reject filtering
    • least-squares fitting and subtraction of Zernike modes, planes, and spheres
    • evaluation of PV, RMS, stdev, Sa, band-limited RMS, total integrated scatter
    • computation of PSD
      • 2D
      • x, y, azimuthally averaged slices
      • evaluation and/or comparison to ab (power law) or abc (Lorentzian) models
    • spike clipping
    • plotting

First-Order Optics

  • object-image distance relation
  • F/#, NA
  • lateral and longitudinal magnification
  • defocus-deltaZ relation
  • two lens EFL and BFL

Parsing Data from Commercial & Open Source Instruments

  • Trioptics ImageMaster MTF benches
  • Zygo Fizeau and white light interferometers
  • MTF Mapper